I prefer "everything is accessed like a file"
-- ems On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:39 -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Brantley Coile wrote: > > > Anyone else see this? More cultures? > > > > > > One of the more interesting to me is waserror()/poperror() vs. goto. > > Also, I've realized nobody in Unix understands Plan 9. It took me a > while. The worst thing ever done was to say that in Plan 9, 'everything > is a file'. It's not. It would have been much better to say 'everything > is a server', maybe. But the 'everything is a file' totally muddies the > discussion, and confuses people, to the point that you actually have to > unwind the discussion and start over -- each and every time. > > ron
